Pre production
The second we were assigned this project, and got into groups, Caitlyn said we were doing "Stressed Out". That made pre production definitely easier and it looked like a fun music video to shoot so we were all happy. We worked for the first week in class on getting everything planned out. Completing the beat sheet, etc... Our group was on top of things so it wasn't too hard. We assigned roles based on what we wanted to do, out group was very relaxed with roles because we all had good input and wanted to be heard. One week after the project was assigned, we started filming. We wanted to get our filming done quickly so we could get ahead on the editing because we knew we would need a lot of time. And thank goodness we did! Editing took nearly the entire time, as we had a shots and takes and had to do some effects later down the road.
Production
When we were filming our music video, we really had no issues. The weather was bad, but our actors toughed it out and were awesome! We only took two days to film. We filmed all the outside scenes after school in our friend, Kenia's, neighborhood. We then shot all the inside scenes at Andrew's house. We took a lot of shots and takes and made sure we had plenty for cutting and trimming which ended up being a good thing. We got all the shots we needed and they were all great quality!
Post production
The editing process for our video was pretty easy. Almost all of the editing we had to do was just sequencing our shots and making sure they lined up correctly with the audio. This was not a challenge because we had Alex lip syncing to the actual song so everything was already the right tempo and all we had to do was trim a bit. When we were nearly done with basic editing, Andrew got to work making Alex's eyes appear red in the last couple shots. We also had to color correct a bit, for example, making the green screen black.
Conclusion
As a whole, our entire group did a great job at working together. We communicated a lot with each other in order to be productive and end up with our outcome. We had to have some people take charge to keep our group on track, especially during the dull moments of editing. Overall, if I were to do this project again, I wouldn't change a thing. I think we worked incredibly well together and it was amazing end result. I am ecstatic with our end result. Looking to the future, I will definitely try to keep our group more on task during editing. All in all, this project was incredible and so fun to work on with such an amazing and talented group of people.
